router top pics

[bogydave]

top of router table progress 2 3/4" birch plywood glued together, banded with oak, formica top & bottom
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj269/bogydave/top-edgebands.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj269/bogydave/flushcutbands.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj269/bogydave/roundcorners.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj269/bogydave/flushlaminate.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj269/bogydave/top.jpg

[Dagster]

Nice, looks similar to what I made for the end of my tablesaw.

[thekl0wn]

Wow... Remind me never to post pics of my router table. Mine looks like a second-hand, third world piece next to this! :eek:

Looks great! :cool:

[AMF]

Heres some pics of my top:
Specs:
Top-1"x24"x48" lamimated table top from Rona
Router plate: Incra undrilled milled alluminium w/3 inserts
Base: 2x4's with leverlers on the legs.
THe plate works great and is very true and easy to level with the table. The top is also very nice, and slippery enough to move wood easily on but not so slippery that you have to worry about accidents. The track I use for feather boards. one of these days I will replace the base with a good solid one, but for now the 2X4's work lol. The worst part about this set up is the router. I hate it, the height adjustment takes 2 hands because it is a plastic on plastic wheel.
* a word of caution, I've had chips fall into the router cooling fan on the arbour end of the motor, unknown to me. I turned it on and took out a few fan blades. I took it apart and for now I took other blades off of the opposite side for balancing. I now remove the router when not using it...*
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/amack_photos/Tools/HPIM1200.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/amack_photos/Tools/HPIM1201.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/amack_photos/Tools/HPIM1202.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/amack_photos/Tools/HPIM1203.jpg

[bogydave]

Nice big table & long miter. Mounting plate looks like best made? Heavy duty. Nice!

I'm a rookie with a router. Just learning. Using the router as much as I can to make the cabinet, fence & top.
Been having fun learning. (except for the aw sh*!'s but that's part of learning)
I'm using plans & modifying them as needed, like the DC & adding sliding fences
Top almost done. sliding fence & dust control hook up in progress
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[AMF]

That looks good bogydave, Ya I got fed up with using plastic inserts and having them deflect and warp, So i spent the $90 and got a good one! I decided against a miter slot and sliding fence because this table is also the outfeed for my table saw and the grooves tend to catch thin material and redirect it! In place of a miter gauge I use a peice of MDF/PC/Solid wood cut at 90degrees to push the peice through, that way the fence doesnt have to be parallel to the miter slot. I used a good heavy straight grain peice of red oak for the fence, then added some lamilated PC to the front. I have a couple pieces of laminate for different diameter router bits.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/amack_photos/Tools/HPIM1206.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/amack_photos/Tools/HPIM1205.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/amack_photos/Tools/HPIM1204.jpg

[Don]

Nice work, guys. Bogy - how's that million dollar workbench holding up? Seems like only yesterday we all worked on it together. It should be in a museum . . . or at least another shot at the home page. ;-)

dawjr

[bogydave]

Thanks Don
You got me started.
I gained confidence that I can make almost anything (wood working).
Gota nice bench to do it on anyway.
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